by Randy Rieland | Apr 17, 2021 | Education, Health, Local Services
Children have been less susceptible to the coronavirus, but for many, a year of social isolation and academic unpredictability has challenged their mental health. A year of living with COVID-19 has taken a toll on Virginia’s Piedmont, from deaths — 62 in Fauquier...
by John McCaslin | Jan 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
All primary highways in Rappahannock County have been pretreated — some twice in two days — in anticipation of what could be the most snow we’ve seen in these mountains and foothills in two years. The brine solution motorists already see sprayed on the roads,...
by Randy Rieland | Dec 22, 2020 | Art, Health, Local Services
Drive-through inoculations at fire and rescue stations a possible option There was much to celebrate earlier this week when hospital workers around the country began receiving inoculations that should protect them from the pandemic that’s killed more than 300,000...
by Randy Rieland | Jul 10, 2020 | Art, Health
‘Everybody in the Hispanic community knows someone who got it. They have seen what COVID does to people’ By mid-April, Yanet Garcia feared the worst. She had heard about people in Culpeper County’s Hispanic community getting sick with what appeared to be COVID-19, and...
by Bob Hurley | Jul 8, 2020 | Art, Health, Local Services, People
Joe Kimpflen: Case manager for adult services, Rappahannock County Department of Social Services; Cabrini College, B.A., Bryn Mawr College M.S.S.; former volunteer EMT in Loudoun County; behavioral health specialist at Prince William Medical Center in Manassas and...